Overview

Tardigrades are supplied in an active form, and are sometimes known as water bears. Includes a living culture for a class of 30.

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Ratings & Reviews

Rated 4 out of
5 by
Hopeman from
Arrived Alive & Provided A Great Lab For My StudenI purchased a container of Tardigrades to ensure that when I did a lab with my students they would have the opportunity to observe a specimen regardless of whether they found their own in the mosses and lichen we collected. The arrived on time, alive, and worked just as planned.
My only reasoning for 4 stars is that I felt the shipping costs and other fees were ridiculous. I paid more for those than I did the Tardigrades.

Date published: 2018-01-13

Rated 5 out of
5 by
museumlady from
Students loved them!Arrived as expected and all of our sample appeared to be alive and well. We have had them for over a month and we still enjoy checking on them.

Date published: 2018-01-05

Rated 5 out of
5 by
LAURELSPARKLE from
Excellent sample of Phylum Tardigrada.Great activity for Life Science viewed under light microscope. Always popular and engaging for students to see micro water bears living as invertebrate animals.

Date published: 2017-03-27

Rated 5 out of
5 by
Ronnie from
I love them!!I needed water bears for a biology lab and we got them and were able to see them under a microscope easily, they came in great condition and they are easy to find. They are also soooo adorable, we named the first bear we found Herb and I printed out a picture of him and my girlfriend got me a stuffed animal. Truly both amazing and adorable creatures, incredibly happy with my purchase

Date published: 2017-02-23

Rated 5 out of
5 by
mwantz from
Lots of healthy specimens, still alive several weeks laterThe two vials of Tardigrades arrived in good shape. There were dozens of living specimens in each of the cultures, and my 6th grade students enjoyed looking at them under the microscope. We are trying to keep them alive in our classroom by adding algae/moss from a pond to the cultures, and so far it's working. They have been producing eggs inside exoskeletons. We have now noticed young Tardigrades, born from the eggs. There are also lots of other types of microbes growing in the cultures along with the Tardigrades because of the added algae.

Date published: 2016-10-13

Rated 5 out of
5 by
Joshvalphoto from
Tardigrades arrived in excellent conditionDoes anyone know the specific species or genus of these lab tardigrades? So far I haven't been able to find anything that specific in the care and handling materials.

Date published: 2016-10-06

Rated 2 out of
5 by
Darell from
Couldn't find the little buggersSince they have incredible staying power I haven't given up.
I'v been out of country for the last two weeks so will fire up the microscope at look again.
I'm not an educator just interested in microscopic life.

Date published: 2016-08-10

Rated 5 out of
5 by
Katy from
The students loved these!The only problem we had was students who tried to suck water from the top of the culture. The water bears are only on the bottom of the culture. There were plenty of them, and they are easy to see with dissecting microscopes. They move slowly so there is no need for a slowing agent such as Protoslow.